I've been meaning to pull together a post responding to various arguments made by Hugo Schwyzer on the possibility of a left, feminist pro-life political alignment (See here, here, here). Ampersand at Alas, A Blog has rendered any such project on my part redundant with this splendid post. (I...
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In a recent article in which self-parody and self-congratulation fought each other to a draw, Prof. Reynolds made the following statement: The press has been in the tank for Kerry to.
Mark Kleiman is the first person I've seen to make this rather crucial point: Wouldn't it be astonishing if a major news organization turned out to have been as foolishly.
Tim Lambert has more on the article inexplicably discussed by the Times: The trouble with their study is that the economy was stronger under Clinton than under either Bush, so of course the reporting of the economy under Clinton was more positive. Lott and Hassett claim...
In the midst of another dissection of Michelle Malkin's book, In Defense of the Indefensible, David Neiwert coins a useful term for the most common form of conservative argument: Malkin, in fact,.
My colleague can hardly be blamed for missing the real pinnacle of Bobo's recent column--the thing was really a cornucopia of insipidity. But try to imagine that anybody would write.
John Lott, that's who! (In case you're not a pathological blog-reader, here's a backgrounder on Mr. Lott). Pay careful attention to how the article is constructed. The goal of the piece is to demonstrate that economic reporters are all lefties who can't report economic matters straight...
Kevin Drum, commenting on an excellent post from Juan Cole, sums up the situation in Iraq as it relates to the struggle against AQ and global terrorism as well as any summary.
Showing a complete lack of originality, I'm following up my Nader post with another classic topic around here: the scribblings of that leading sociologist, David Brooks. His column today indicates.
An even better take on Linklater from Armond White in the New York Press: Everything wrong with today's movie culture can be found in Before Sunset. Not to exaggerate this pipsqueak movie, but its very "smallness" is symptomatic of the diminished expectations and paltry substance that...
The upcoming primary here in Washington has a few tough choices to consider. On the Governors race, I'm pretty much set on Sims. I don't think he'll win, and Gregoire may.
Good news from Florida, which, scarily, may again be the deciding factor in the upcoming election. I confess that when I hear that Nader has suffered a setback or failed.